Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series A, Mathematical Sciences

Deformations of the discrete Heisenberg group

Severin Barmeier

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Abstract

We study deformations of the discrete Heisenberg group acting properly discontinuously on the Heisenberg group from the left and right and obtain a complete description of the deformation space.

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Proc. Japan Acad. Ser. A Math. Sci., Volume 89, Number 4 (2013), 55-59.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 2 April 2013

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https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.pja/1364869072

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.3792/pjaa.89.55

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR3047484

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1277.32012

Subjects
Primary: 32G08: Deformations of fiber bundles 22E40: Discrete subgroups of Lie groups [See also 20Hxx, 32Nxx] 22F30: Homogeneous spaces {For general actions on manifolds or preserving geometrical structures, see 57M60, 57Sxx; for discrete subgroups of Lie groups, see especially 22E40} 57S30: Discontinuous groups of transformations

Keywords
Deformation discrete group properly discontinuous action homogeneous space Heisenberg group

Citation

Barmeier, Severin. Deformations of the discrete Heisenberg group. Proc. Japan Acad. Ser. A Math. Sci. 89 (2013), no. 4, 55--59. doi:10.3792/pjaa.89.55. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.pja/1364869072


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